Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 14795, David Goodenow, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Goodenow, David Abigail
W 14795
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2066 Massachusetts Abigail Goodenow widow of David Goodenow who died on the 9 May 1810 of Worcester in the State of Mass a who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Tuttle of the Regt s commanded by Col  in the Mass a line for 2 years War
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass a at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of May 1838 and sent Hon. L. Lincoln Hoo. of Reps.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $560.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 1838. 40.00 $600.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded, by W. Addison Clerk. Book 1 Vol. 2 Page 50

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the fourth of July 1836.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County Ss. On this seventeenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared Abigail Goodenow before her Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, the said Abigail being resident in the town of Paxton in said County and aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 14. 1836.
That she is the widow of David Goodenow who was a private in the War of the revolution and as nearly as she can state same as fol- lows.
1. In the year 1776, in the spring of the year he went into the years service at Bunker Hill under Capt. Badlett, but he cannot state Capt.

Bartlett's American service. It was in February or March that he went into this service, and he returned about the same time in the next year. She knows this because she was married to the said Goodman the May after his return from this service in the Spring of 1777.
2. The next service he went into was after our marriage, in the year 1778. This was at Watkins in this County guarding Burgoyne's troops. He went in April of that year and was gone in this service six months. Our first child Polly, was born whilst my husband was in this service. She is not certain what Capt. in some order, but thinks it must have been Capt. William Harrington or Capt. Moses Whipple.
3. The next service was at Woodstock in the year 1779. It was the year my second daughter Polly, was born, our first daughter of that name being deceased. She believes this to have been a service of six months but she cannot state under what Captain nor the particulars of it. She remembers that

he was at home over on footpath, during this time, and remembers that he bought her two years.
11 He went out again in the Continental army in 1780 but she does not know under what Captain. He went to Wadsworth in this service and has gone six months. She has heard him talk a great deal about being present at the in this service, at the execution of Major Andross. He got hurt about the first of January and about three weeks before the battle of Trenton and Saratoga. But for the further particulars of all these services she must refer to the proof annexed and to the rolls in the war department.
She further declares that she was married to the said David Goodwin on the twenty seventh day of May 1777, but she is informed that their marriage was not recorded, or that such record is lost. He was married as soon as our settlement was out, by the Rev. Alexan- der Magee of Paxton. That her husband the said David Goodwin died twenty eight years ago the 7th day of this month, and

That the has announced a letter and a letter that period, as will more fully appear by of even to the proof birds annexed Sturtevant and Walbridge on the day after your appearance before
In Barton Judge here of the Court of Probate for said County Weymouth X Providence D mark

I Addison Knight of Paxton in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that I am the Town Clerk of the said Town of Paxton and have all the Books of the records of the said Town and that I find no record of any marriage in them previous to the year 1784.
Addison Knight
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. April 6th 1838 personally appeared the above named Addison Knight and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth before me Brad. Spivernmore Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. April. 16 th 1858. I hereby certify that the within named Addison Knight is the Town Clerk of the Town of Paxton, and that he is a Gentleman of unblemished character and that his testimony ought to have full credit given to it.
Brook! Spencemore Justice of the Peace

on the Records of the Town of Paxton in the County of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massach- -usetts is as follows (viz)
David Goodenow jun r and Abigail Muzzy both of Paxton Intend Marriage April the Twenty-sixth in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventyseven with the exception of the date which is in fair legible figures as "April 26 th 1777." Polly Goodenow Daughter of David Goodenow jun r and Abigail his wife was born April Twenty-fifth one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight with the exception of the date which is in legible figures as "April 25 th 1778."
Polly Goodenow Daughter of David Goodenow jun r and Abigail his wife Died November ninth one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight with the exception of the date which is in legible figures as November 9 th 1778
Polly Goodenow second Daughter of David Goodenow jun r and Abigail his wife was born September 1 st one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine with the exception of the date which is in legible figures as September 1 st 1779.
David Goodenow died April ninth one thousand eight hundred and ten with the exception of the date which is in legible figures as April 9 th 1810.
A true copy with the exceptions as above mentioned.
Addison Knight Town Clerk

Rev WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 14795 Abigail Gordenow Widow of Davis Gordenow Pre Civil War
Act: July 4th 86
Index:—Vol. a , Page 280
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Paoton May 31 1888
Dear sir and much respected friend
your favor under date of the 18 th ult came duly to me containing a communication to you from the pension agent relating to Mrs Goodenow's claim for a pension, and sir in answer to that I have to state that I am a little surprised at what Mr. Edwards has written to your Hon. on that subject, as there is not any thing more proverbial among the old people here than that David Goodenow did the service, which his widow in her declaration states he did, but sir it is not to be expected that at so long a time since those services were done that his widow could tell what officers her husband was under if she ever knew like as not she never did. (it is to me by no means strange that the men and women that lived in those days have forgotten so much, and not be able to state the names of the officers, I am acquainted with a number of men that was in the army in that war that are not so old as Mrs. Goodenow, that have forgotten who their officers was that they served under, there is one man now living that belonged to the same company with me nine months, and the last time that I saw him he told me that he had no recollection of any such person ever being a soldier with him at any time. there is but six men now living in Paoton that was living in said town in the time of that war, and all of them except myself are so broken down with old age that they have but very little or no sense, and have forgotten almost every thing that they ever knew, there are some men and women living in town that was living in town at that time, but they were little children and knew nothing of those things. you will perceive sir by looking into the affidavits which are in Mrs. Goodenow's papers that of Esther Weeks is in support of the 1776 service as that of David Weeks's making mention of Goodenow's telling him that he was at New York when our army retreated out of it. likewise it mentions Goodenow's talking him of being at Providence with James Washburn as an Artillery. The affidavit of Samuel Brewer has some relation to the year service in 1776 and to the service at Rutland. Mr. Brewer is a gentleman of unblemished character I have been allays acquainted with him ever since I was a boy for he was a native of this town, and lived within a mile of Goodenow's, and he lived in the town until after the close of the war, and sir I have not taken the affidavit of one

person but what I am well acquainted with except one that is Henry Dinsford, all the others were natives of Paxton except Mr. Washburn and he lives within less than 15 Roads of Paxton line and less than half a mile of My House and has allways lived there ever since he was a small boy, and I know all of them to bear good characters, except Dinsford and I know nothing against his in point of veracity. Esther Wicker and the widow Goodnow were almost of an age and allways lived within sixty or seventy roads of each other until Mrs Goodnow was married they were very intimate with each other I know for we lived but little way from each other went to the School, and what is more natural than to suppose that two young intimate girls, one of them having a lover in the Army and he write letters to his love at home, that the one that received the letters would not at once let her intimate and particular friend and associate see them, this may be relied upon that not one of those persons that has given their affidavits would testify falsely for the world if they knew it. But sir I shall tire your Hon. for I have written much more than what I supposed I should have to when I began to write, but I must not stop now. Should be glad if your Hon. would ascertain if Capt. Nathan Harringtons pay Rolls are found in the Pension office or Capt. Moses Whipple's for he must have been in one or the other of those companies if he was on the guard at Rutland I think since I received your last communication I have been to see a number of men and women who I supposed might perhaps know something but I could not obtain any thing better than what is to be found in the papers already sent you and I have written to two persons with but little or no expectation of obtaining some proof of the service of six months at Providence, which there is no more doubt of his having done that service than there is that General Suter Retreated from Providence that same year and there is not a doubt but that Goodnow was in that service two years and more if there is not a very strong presumption that Mrs Goodnows testimony is true and enough to satisfy the pension agent that she is entitled to a pension for more than the six months in the year 1780 which she did I do not know what further proof can be obtained or stronger unless we could converse with the dead. if we cannot obtain full proof we must take what we can get. be the same more or less good will sir do the best you can and it is said the best can do no better. Hon. Levi Lincoln I am sir with respect more sincerely D. Livermore

Paxton Mass
May 7
free
Hon. Asa Lincoln Esq.
Member of Congress from Mass. City of Washington

H. B. St. George told me that a number of the pay Rolls were either lost or destroyed.
I am assured that your Hon. will do all that is proper to be done in the case. please send me the result as soon as may be convenient after you obtain it. I hope you will forgive me for troubling your Honors so much. be assured Sir that I shall gratefully remember your Honors for this as many other favors.
I remain sincerely your friend and ob t serv t . Braddyll Greville
Hon. Levi Lincoln City of Washington

Abigail Goodenow wid of Daniel Mass.
Married 1777 died 1880.
Allao 2 of $80 per Ann - no deduction
Mass Genl Service
Hon. L. Lincoln H. R.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Mr. Banton is the Judge of said Court, and that his name subscribed to the paper hereto annexed is his own genuine signature.
I further certify, that Brattle Diverstone and James Day are Justices of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that their several signatures to the paper hereto annexed are their own genuine signatures.
In witness whereof I do hereunto set my name and affix the seal of said Court this ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register.

I Francis Washburn of Leicester in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of sixty six years do testify and say that I was acquainted with David Goodenow of Paxton, in said County and Abigail his Wife, my father living within six or eight rods of said Paxton line and always went to Meeting there when we could, and I further say that I had a Cousin by the name of James Washburn who lived in said Paxton within fifty or sixty rods of my fathers house, and in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine my Cousin James went into the Army at Providence for six Months and when he came home he told me that the above said David Goodenow was there at Providence in that six Months service and work d as an artificer in the same Shop with him and that he li d Goodenow to bring his gun home for him and that he likewise brought it, and after the close of the war, the said Goodenow came and lived and died within less than half a mile of me and his Widow the said Abigail is now living in the same house in which her Husband died.
Francis Washburn
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss March 28 - 1838 personally appeared the above named Francis Washburn, and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was true. Before me Brad t Givensmore
Worcester ss March 28 - 1838 I hereby certify Justice of the Peace that Mr Washburn is a near neighbor to me and that he is a gentleman of truth and veracity and his testimony is worthy of full credit Brad t Givensmore Justice of Peace

I Esther Wicker of Paxton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Seventy-six years old do testify and say that I was personally and well acquainted with David Goodenow Jr. and Abigail his wife before they were married they being both of said Paxton, and she was brought up within sixty or seventy rods of my fathers house where I lived and used to go to school together of times and were very intimate friends when we were young girls, and the said David Goodenow did court the said Abigail before he went into the Army of the United States in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy-six for one year, and he wrote her a number of letters while he was in that service, which she let me see and read or hear them read Esther Wicker
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Worcester ss March 28 - 1838 personally appeared the above named Esther Wicker and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed before me - Brad. Livermore Justice of the Peace
Worcester ss March 28 - 1838 I hereby certify that I have been all my life time acquainted with the above named Esther Wicker and that she is a person of truth and that her testimony deserves full credit - Brad. Livermore Justice of the Peace

I David Wicker of Leicester in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but formerly an Inhabitant of Paxton in said county of Worcester, fifty nine years old do testify and say that I was well acquainted with David Goodenow and Abigail his wife both of said Paxton and some time after the close of the Revolutionary war he the said Goodenow and Abigail his wife came and lived in a house in Paxton, within sixty or seventy rods of me and I was often there and have heard him tell that he was in the Army six Months at Providence Road Island with James Washburn who went from Paxton aforesaid and worked as an Artificer in the same Shop with Washburn and that Washburn got him to bring two Guns home to Paxton which he did and that Washburn gave him one of them for his trouble in bringing them and I have seen the one that he said Washburn let him have and have shot at a number of times. and further I have heard him say that he was at New York in the service when our Army retreated out of it he often would tell me all about it and what a time it was with them at that time. David Wicker
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss. March 28 th 1838. personally appeared the above named David Wicker and made Oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed before me.
Brad d Livermore Justice of the Peace Worcester ss I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above named David Wicker from his youth up to the present time and that he is a Gentleman of strict veracity and that his testimony ought to have full credence given to it. March 28 - 1838 Brad d Livermore Justice of the Peace

I Alpheus Brown of Leicester in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts formerly an inhabitant of Paxton in said County eighty six years old do testify and say that I was well acquainted with David Goodenough of said Paxton and Abigail his wife before they were married, and that I was knowing to the said David being from home in the Army of the United States for a long time but the exact length of time I do not pretend to say or how many times he was out in that war but I know that he was gone a considerable part of the time of the Revolutionary war in the army that is he engaged to go and went out of the town to join the Army and when the time or times of service that he engaged for was out he returned home again out of the Army as I believe but I cannot say that he ever joined the Army for I was not in it myself with him yet I have not a doubt but he always did join the Army as he engaged to go. I lived in the town all the time of that war and for quite a number of years after the close of it and have been at the said David Goodenough's house a number of times after the war was over and further I say that he some times when he was at home out of the army would come to my house and tell me about his being in the Army and his being sick and how sickly the Army was at one time when he was in it.
Alpheus Brown
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. April 2 nd 1838 personally appeared the above named Alpheus Brown and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed was the truth and nothing but the truth before me.
Brad. Livermore Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss April 2 nd 1838 I hereby certify that the within named Alpheus Brown was a native Inhabitant of the within mentioned Paxton as my self was, and that I have been well acquainted with him for more than fifty years, and that he sustains a good character in every sense of the word as any other man of my acquaintance, and that his testimony ought to have full credit given to it
Bradbury Livermore Justice of the Peace

I Samuel Brewer of Spencer in the County of Worcester and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and formerly an inhabitant of Paxton in said County of Worcester eighty years old do testify that I was well acquainted with David Goodenow jun and Abigail his wife before they were married they both being natives of the same town of Paxton as myself his father and my father lived within about a mile of each other and I further testify and say that the said David Goodenow jun went into the United States Army in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy six for one year and that he was married to Abigail Murray soon after he came home out of said service and I was at his father's house the next morning after he brought his wife home and the next Spring after which was in the year of Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight he was on the guard at Rutland six months guarding the prisoners that were there and I was knowing to his being going into the Army and being from home in the case of the Revolution two years and a half or more for I lived within about one mile of his family all the time of the Revolutionary war, his widow the said Abigail has been at my House and worked for me since her husband's death and since I have lived in Spencer
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Samuel Brewer
Worcester ss March 30 th 1838 personally appeared the above named Samuel Brewer and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed was the truth and nothing but the truth before me David Livermore Justice of the Peace
Worcester ss March 30 th 1838 I hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Mr Brewer ever since I was a boy he being a justice of the peace of mine and that he is a gentleman of truth and good character and that his testimony ought to have full credit given to it
David Livermore Justice of the Peace

I Henry Briceford of Spencer in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts eightyfive years old do testify and say that I was a Soldier in the Army of the United States one year and was in the City of New York when our Army retreated out of it and that David Goodenow of Paxton in said County of Worcester was there at that time a Soldier in the same service with me for the same term of time as my self and that I was well acquainted with him when there that he behaved himself like a good Soldier
Henry his Briceford mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. March 31 st 1838 Personally appeared the above named Henry Briceford after being cautioned made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed by his making his mark that it was the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth before me Brad!
Livermore Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. March 31 st 1838 I hereby certify that I have been some acquainted with the within named Henry Prissford, and have inquired of his neighbours as to his character in point of veracity and they say that it is good, and that his testimony is worthy of full credit
Brad. Livermore Justice of Peace

I hereby certify more of Paxton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts seventy-four years and six months old do testify and say that I was acquainted with David Goodenow Jr and Abigail Murry, after words the said David's wife they being natives of the same Town of said Paxton as well as my self the said Abigail being born as I have been informed by people older than my self within a mile of my father's, and I know that she was brought up in the place where it was said she was born for I have been at the house many times when she was young and lived there with her Mother and I have been at the same School with her many times. And I further state that after the Revolutionary war commenced, that the said Town of Paxton was called upon in the year of Seventeen hundred and eighty to raise some men to go into the continental Army for six months to help fill up the ranks of the Continental Army that was vacated by the discharge of the men at the end of the war and the said David Goodenow was one of the men that went and one of the first to return. I have heard that he was a soldier of the army at that time, they engaged some time in the month of June of that year and they marched out of Boston to join the Army in New York part of July next following, I was with them the after noon and evening of the day before they left Boston, and they returned from some time in the forepart of the month of January next following, and after the close of the war the the said David and his wife Abigail came and lived in a house within half a mile of mine when he the said David died I saw him breathe his last breath and his remains put into his grave and his widow the said Abigail is now living in the same house in which her husband died. I have heard of his being in the army at other time besides that of the year of 1780 but my being in the service some time my self and not with him I do not pretend to know but I have no doubt that of its being true further I say not. Paul Livermore

Wadsworth. April 7, 1838. The formerly offensive Wadsworth-Livornia Regt who is known to me as a man of truth and manly faith that the foregoing disputation by him submitted is true.
My dear
The Boston Society of Natural History
And therefore the Court do declare it as their opinion after a full investigation of the matter that the said Oliver Goodwin was a soldier of the Revolution; that he married the said offspring; that he had the same children and that she had the same children as she had the same children as she had the same children the said children to be a part of the
In Boston July 1 st of since birth

I, James D. Farnsworth of Paxton in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby testify & say, that I am now the pastor of the Congregational Church in this town, that this is the same Church, of which the Rev. Alexander Thayer was pastor from the year 1770 to 1782, that I have in my possession all the Records of said Church, which are known here to exist, that there are no Records of the doings of the Church or the pastor, during Mr. Thayer's ministry, & that there are no marriages recorded, as being solemnized by either of the pastors of this Church, previous to the year 1794, when the Rev. Mr. Grosvenor was settled.
James D. Farnsworth.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester ss. April 3 d 1838, Then personally appeared Rev. James D. Farnsworth, and made solemn oath, that the above statement by him subscribed in my presence is true.
James Day, Justice of the Peace.
April 3 d 1838, I hereby certify that the above named Rev. James D. Farnsworth is a man of unblemished character, and that his testimony is worthy of entire confidence and credit.
James Day, Justice of the Peace.